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I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

Michael Cunningham

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Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
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Screenwriter
University Teacher
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Cincinnati
Ohio
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Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.
Michael Cunningham
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I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions.
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These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect everybody's little display of genius.
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I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.
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What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.
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I seem to produce a novel approximately once every three years.
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What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. Everything is gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.
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The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.
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You can't find peace by avoiding life.
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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
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You could say I don't want for me be seen primarily as a gay writer. I've never hidden my sexuality. It matters that I'm gay, it matters that I'm white, it matters that I'm male, it matters that I'm American. But basically it's just less and less of a big deal.
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Silly humans. Banging on a tub to make a bear dance when we would move the stars to pity.
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a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
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You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.
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Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?
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I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.
Michael Cunningham
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Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?
Michael Cunningham